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George Fenzl, now a lieutenant commander, has spent the past two years as catapult officer on the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, an attack carrier, and has made two cruises to the Viet Nam war zone. During the 1964 cruise the Ticonderoga launched the first U.S. air attack against North Viet Nam - the bombing of the PT boat bases in the Gulf of Tonkin. On the current cruise, George writes, "our planes have been ranging quite a bit farther after numerous targets. Operations are, indeed, around the clock, but I manage to maintain a steady four hours sleep a night, whether I need it or not." George has orders to report next to a jet fighter squadron based at Alameda, Calif., delighting both him and his wife, Roxana, who's originally from Burbank.
Another informative note comes from the other side of the world, Paris. Bob Stirling has been there for three years as IBM's director of contract relations in Europe. "My activities," he says, "involve negotiating with almost all the major European companies on patent and trademark licensing matters, on acquisition possibilities, and special relationships outside normal sales activity. The work is fascinating and it's been quite an experience seeing first-hand the impatient development of nationalism in Europe, most notably in France." Bob adds that "there is a pretty active Dartmouth Club here in Paris and through several of the members who get back to Hanover from time to time, we hear how the College is developing." Bob and Rita live in Neuilly sur Seine, a 15-minute subway ride from his office, and their fourth child and second boy, Jeffrey, was born on November 11.
Two other classmates also have reported from France. Roger Sherman arrived last June and "accepted delivery of an Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT... . Europe's vistas beckon." Roger is with a firm which advises the Defense Department on the use of computers. Just before the Shermans left Washington, their second daughter, Paige Ann, was born in May. Jim and Helen McKendry and their four children are in Verdun, where Mac is an Army orthopedic surgeon.
Among stateside doctors, John Colwell practices surgery in Los Gatos, Calif., and is on the surgery faculty at Stanford. BobBlum completed his residency in neurological surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and began practicing in Oakland in January; he lives in San Francisco. John Elkas opened an office for pediatrics in Kearny, N. J. He's also a clinical instructor in pediatrics at the New Jersey College of Medicine.
Gordon Zacks, who is Executive Vice President of the R. G. Barry Corporation of Columbus, Ohio, has been elected associate chairman of the Young Leadership Cabinet of the national United Jewish Appeal. A prominent Jewish communal leader, Gordon was formerly regional vicechairman for the East Central area in the Young Leadership Cabinet and is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Young Men's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council in Columbus. He was honored with the Therese Stern Kahn Memorial Leadership citation for his service as an "outstanding young leader" of Columbus.
Bernie Fulton is one of LBJ's field commanders in the war on poverty. He's director of community assistance in New Jersey's Office of Economic Opportunity, which means he provides technical assistance to communities carrying out community action programs. Bernie, his wife, and two children live in Moorestown. Ty Auer was promoted to assistant general manager of Puritan Leasing Co. of Santa Barbara. The firm leases equipment through offices in ten California cities. Ty's new responsibilities include advertising and formulating "systems and procedures for company sales, financial, and administrative activities."
John Callahan received a nice writeup, avec photo, in the Amherst alumni magazine, when he was named director of development, "heading the college's continuing program of financial support for educational growth." The magazine continued: "His appointment as director of development at Amherst represents a decision by the Board of Trustees to maintain a development staff on a continuing basis." Amherst has raised $21 million in a three-year drive, which the magazine described as "the first phase of a long-term effort to acquire $36 million in new resources by 1971," so John will have his hands full. He was formerly associate director of development.
Tom Connor reports that he's "finally been sucked down the tube" and will be married in July, but he doesn't say to whom - perhaps he hasn't decided yet. Tom is a real estate broker dealing in investments, and lives in Goleta, Calif. Despite his sunny clime, he says his first skiing of the year, at Mammoth Mountain, was in early December, and "that's living." Wayne Cliff is with E. S. Merriman and Sons, lending money on real estate in the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in San Rafael, and is currently president of the DOC of Northern California and vice president of the Northern California Alumni Association, "of which Gene Elsbree is president and does all the work."
Dick Bueschel moved up to director of internal business systems and programing at Honeywell's electronic data processing division, Wellesley, Mass. He was previously manager of financial information systems. John Mansfield is now a pilot for TWA, with Boston his home base. He lives with his_ wife and daughter in Nashua, N. H. Phil Mayer was promoted to plant superintendent at Douglas Motors Corp., Milwaukee.
Walt Levins has joined in forming a law partnership in Manhattan, Kreisel, Friedman and Levins. Pete Fishbein, also practicing law in New York, last month began teaching a third-year seminar at N.Y.U. law school on the First Amendment freedoms. Joe Gahn is writing a history dissertation at Syracuse University, and reports that "a Smith girl chases me, but I do not know how to say yes."
Harry Millar is a veterinarian in Eatontown, N. J., and last fall attended a fourday seminar on neurology and neurosurgery in Chicago. Dan Danneman lives in Scarsdale and sells real estate for Charles F. Noyes Co. in New York. Dave Anderson returned from five years in Johannesburg with the Chase Manhattan Bank and is now with Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York. He's living in Upper Saddle River, N. J.
Another commuting New York banker, Chuck Hunter, was promoted to lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, and is an instructor for the weekly meetings of a New York City Naval Intelligence unit. Chuck and Judy had their third daughter, Roberta, last June 16. Hi and Ase Allman had their second son, Hiram Jr., November 23. They live in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Bob andLinda Leffert had their second child and first son, Adam Emanuel, June 16 at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Jacksonville. Bob is a Navy doctor now serving with the First Marine Division on Okinawa. Glen andLynn Wathen and their three children flew from home in Fort Fairfield, Me., to visit her family in Washington state for a month last fall.
The next time you board a Trans World Airline plane look carefully at the pilots. One of them may be your classmate JohnDell Isola. John recently earned his flight wings as a first officer, following completion of TWA's training course at the Jack Frye International Training Center at Kansas City, Mo. He is currently based in Boston and is assigned to the TWA Star Stream fleet. He makes his home in Dover, N. H.
In extracurricular activities: Steve Altaian was appointed Republican campaign finance chairman in New Rochelle; he practices law there. Bob Horton was named campaign chairman for the 1966 United Cerebral Palsy drive in Waterbury, Conn.; Bob is an assistant trust officer of the Waterbury branch of the Connecticut National Bank, and is also currently first vice president of the Greater Watertown Junior Chamber of Commerce. Al Wright is president of the Seacoast Region Dartmouth Alumni Club, centering in Exeter, N. H.
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